102cm x 152cm pigment print, copyright Michael Massaia

Michael Massaia, Sponge Bob, 2014

July is national ice-cream month! Photographer Michael Massaia’s melted ice-creams make art out of a familiar sight during summer days; sticky and gross, his images also hint at the indulgence and wastefulness of consumerism, and those artificial colours suddenly look shocking rather than something we want to put in our stomachs. Maybe we don’t feel like an ice-cream anymore…